Special Week Highlights Harriton Senior's Football Past, Future

Rams' star tight end Ryan Kelly committed to Penn and will be a Maxwell Club award winner.

There can't be many people Harriton senior Ryan Kelly would want to trade places with this week. On Thursday, he’s going to be honored by the Maxwell Football Club as one of the top high school football players in Pennsylvania. And to kick off this week, Kelly made a life-changing choice. Harriton’s All-Central League first-team 6-foot-4-inch, 215-pound tight end made a commitment to the University of Pennsylvania to play football. Since Ivy League schools don’t allow sports scholarships, Kelly will attend Penn on a grant-in-aid package based on need. Kelly chose Penn over a number of Ivy League schools like Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell. Kelly also considered Lehigh, Davidson, Bucknell, Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon. Kelly …

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